Philips - Hue Play White & Color Ambiance Smart LED Bar Light - White

Compact design, full light experience. Create a vibrant ambiance with the Hue Play light bar. Choose from 16 million colors to experience different light effects. Lay it on the floor, let it stand on the cabinet, or mount it on the back of the TV and paint your wall with light. Connect it to Hue Bridge for full smart experience. This base kit provides 1 light point and power supply. Hue bridge not included.

What's Included

Manuals & Guides

Features

Voice control

Control your Philips Hue lights with your voice using Alexa, Apple HomeKit, or Google Assistant. Pair it for home automation with your existing Nest products or Samsung SmartThings system.

Philips Hue Play adapts to your living room design and blends with your interiors seamlessly

You can let it stand on your cabinet to create a pleasant ambiance, mount it on the back of your TV or even lay it flat on the floor to brighten your walls from floor to ceiling.

Create the most beautiful backlight for your television

Just mount Philips Hue Play behind your screen using the clips and double-sided tape included in the pack, and enhance your viewing experience with splashes of light surrounding your television.

One socket. 3 Hue Plays

Connect not only 1, but up to 3 Hue Plays to the same power supply unit, leaving enough room for other devices. With each additional Hue Play, your light experience becomes even more immersive. This base kit includes 1 power supply.

Requiring the Hue Bridge (sold separately) for the full Hue smart experience.

perfect if you don't want to use the lightstrip

If you don't want to use the light strip to light up your TV, this is the perfect solution. I bought the one that contains 2 light bars in one package. Setup was a breeze. Each on comes with two stands - one for vertical mount so you can stand them up on your TV stand and the second option is the stick-on mount of you want to attach them to the back of your TV. I used the vertical mounts and found just fine. The surprise was in the power module for these - it comes with three!!! output jacks, so you can power up three light bars without needing 3 outlets. Very thoughtful! Their brightness of 550 lumens was good enough to create a prefect ambiance and I truly enjoyed it. (Remember that 1st gen of hue light was rated only at 600 lumens)
I am still thinking about buying the 3rd one and mount them on the back of my TV with the 3rd one in the middle but then it becomes a somewhat expensive solution, however offset by its versatility. As I said I bought for my TV but these compact bars can be used in place of Iris, Hue Go or any other accent lights throughout the house

I would recommend this to a friend

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seanharmon1

Verified Purchase

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Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

Beware of Philips Marketing

The units themselves work great. The setup and pairing was easy. The colors are fantastic. Everything you would expect from a Philips Hue product.
But...
Do not be fooled by their marketing. They do not easily sync with the content on your TV. You'll need Philips Hue Sync running on a PC. Once this is installed, Philips expects you to either connect an HDMI cable or cast the content from your PC to your TV. Only then will the lights sync with your TV. In the age of the streaming device and smart TV, this is not a good solution.
I'm still going to keep the units, as I hope Philips will introduce an installed application for my Fire TV or other smart device to provide better content sync. I've also had no luck getting these lights to sync with my Sonos home speakers.

No, I would not recommend this to a friend

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Albee

Verified Purchase

Elite Member

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Unique ambient lighting solution for Gamers

Purchased 2 of these to sit behind a gaming monitor. The lights create an immersive experience and dynamically change color to match what is on the screen. The lights are bright and the colors they cast against the wall are vibrant. Reaction time is fast, and there is almost no noticeable lag between what happens on screen and the changing colors of the play bar. Besides immersion, the lights give the added bonus of making "IPS glow" in dark rooms less noticeable. I did not give 5 stars since they require the separate Hue Bridge, and there is no way to directly plug the product via usb to a PC or Mac. I think that would have been an obvious / elegant solution for those of using the product with our computer displays.

I would recommend this to a friend

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laffer1

Verified Purchase

Member

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Awesome for gaming

I purchased this to put on the back of my monitor on my gaming pc. I've got it stuck to the center using the enclosed 3m double sided tape.
The windows software is reasonably easy to use. It syncs pretty well with the game or videos I'm playing. It's absolutely awesome for Overwatch. The bright pulses of light used in the game come alive with this. Very neat.
The only issue I have with it is that when you've got the sync feature turned on, it kind of locks the lights on. You have to click several things to turn them off and voice control with google home or alexa can't do it on their own.

I would recommend this to a friend

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JohnCrichton

Member

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Better version of the Bloom

Title of the review is pretty much all there is to say. Blooms were good for ambient lighting, but had a limited color spectrum and were annoyingly white with a white cord. This is much brighter, has better color output, offers more mounting possibilities, and is a easier to hid because it's black. The expansion option to add 3 of these per power supply is a great touch as well.
For the extra $10, I see very little reason to buy a Bloom over a Play.
I do wish the two included mounting plates were combined into a single that used some sort of ball bearing for rotation, but other than that I have zero complaints.

I would recommend this to a friend

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Mikeebeaverton

Verified Purchase

Elite Member

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Great ambiance

Great ambiance, nice app integration... only complaint i's limitation of stances for the lights... they should have a better cradling system. It's difficult to sit the bar in the cradle and have it sit without moving because of the weight of the cord... also you have to have it balanced perfectly in the middle or it falls off the cradle...NOW, I understand it's supposed to be screwed into the cradle in 1 of 2 configurations, but that completely limits this lights usage and the users ability to position it... something Philips could definitely work on... no bad on best buy

I would recommend this to a friend

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HDDude

Verified Purchase

Elite Plus Member

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Perfect!

I'm using this incredible light for a slightly different purpose. It illuminates my turntable. I installed in on the wall, just above where the turntable's dust cover extends when raised. It's perfect. I can dim it or brighten it by voice, of course, using Google Home. I usually keep it on very softy, kind of like a 25W bulb., But if I want full brightness, it's available. It looks phenomenal, and works absolutely perfectly. It's made my return to vinyl even more enjoyable.

I would recommend this to a friend

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Matt37

Verified Purchase

Member

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Amazing Entertainment lighting

I’m using these lights on my 55in Samsung T.V. And the lights truly do bring the Movies, games to a whole new level. It expands the surrounding area to the screen of my T.V. When watching a video/ concert footage it almost feels like I’m right there in the crowd with the help of my surround sound...truly a amazing experience and very easy to set up. I would definitely recommend these lights to anyone!!